More job cuts predicted at CSIRO

The CSIRO says an extra eight staff will lose their jobs as part of a restructure in Adelaide.

Twenty-eight researchers are being asked to relocate to Melbourne or take a redundancy when the Woodville metals manufacturing laboratory is shut down within 12 months.

Another eight administrative staff at the site are facing the sack.

The CSIRO's spokeswoman, Vicki Tutungi, says more administration jobs could go throughout the organisation as part of a nationwide cull.

"The CSIRO is currently running a process where it's rationalising its human resources, finance, and administrative support staff to run corporately, and that process started some 12 months ago or so, and is continuing," she said.

"Rationalisation or the restructuring of the support services will continue for some months yet, and I believe that there will be some redundancies at the end of that process."

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